146 



and Central Europe; Piedmont; Northeastern Turkey; Southern Russia: 

 Altai Mountains; Eastern Siberia; Iceland. 



This species is double-brooded, appearing in May and also in July, as it 

 is in Europe. 



Larva. — "The caterpillar is figured in Sepp's exquisitely beautiful work 

 on Dutch Lepidoptera. It is represented feeding on a species of cabbage 

 (Brassica). The ground-colour is a reddish-gray, with a naedio-dorsal series 

 of triangular markings of a rosy-pink, and a lateral stripe in the region oi the 

 spiracles of a dingy-yellow." — Newman's British Moths, 168. 



"Larva reddish-gray, with a row of pink triangles on the back; spirac- 

 ular line pale yellowish-grey (Sepp). < >n cabbage in September." — Stainton's 

 Manual of British Butterflies and Moths. 



Ocuykia fkkki (i.\i;iA Hiibner. Plate 8, fig. 62. 



" Geonietra ferrugata Hint, Icon. Ins.. 6, 14, 1759." 



"Linn., Fauna Suecica, 338, 1761." 



■ Borkl)., Kur. Schm., v. 387, 1794." 



•■ Iliilui.. Schm. Eur., 460 (285 .'). 1796." 

 •■ Geometra unidentaria Haw., Lep. Brie. 308, 1803-29." 

 Cidaria ferrugaria Treits., Schm. Eur., vi \ii), lis, 1828. 

 Cidaria fetrugata Steph., Nomencl. Br. Ins., II, 1829. 

 Eubolia ferrugaria Dup., Lep. Prance, viii in, 181, pi. Is:',. Eg. 6, 1830. 

 Cidaria unidentaria Stepb., III., iii, '21.">, 1831. 

 Cidaria ferrugata Steph., 111., iii, '.'Hi. 1831. 

 Larentia ferrugaria H.-Sch., Schm. Eur., iii, 149, 1847. 

 Coremia ferrugata Steph., Cat. Br. Lep., 186, 1850. 

 Coremia unidentaria Steph., Cat. Br. Lep., 187,1850. 

 Coremia ferrugata (and var. unidentaria) Guen., Phal., ii, 413, 1857. 



Walk. !!!, List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xxv, 1305, 1802. 

 Cidaria ferrugata Zeller, Verh. lint. Zool. Ges. Wien, xxii, 495, 1872. 



10 3 and in ?. — Male antennae well pectinated; front brown; palpi long 

 and stout, brown, pale cinereous beneath; a transverse black band on the pro- 

 thorax: behind, on mesoscutum, brown scales. Abdomen pale cinereous, with 

 a iow of blackish spots on each side very conspicuous. Base of fore wings 

 with distinct reddish-brown hands, alternating with pale lines, the inner one 

 broadest : within, at the base, dark; in the middle of the wing, a broad black 

 band, with a large angle on the outer side; edge finely dentate, lined exter- 

 nally with white; the dark band is traversed by darker, deep black, and pale 

 lines; discal dot small, black, indistinct ; beyond, and greatly widening on 

 the costa, are two parallel brown lines, which end in the middle of the wing; 

 a submarginal, scalloped, white line, and running just outside of a black. \rvy 



